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Milan Kopecký in 1966

RNDr., CSc. Doc. Milan Kopecký

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Věra Kopejsková, then Holubová, in the photo from the graduation photo board

Věra Kopejsková

* 1942

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Adolf Köpf in 1960

Adolf Köpf

* 1938

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Eliška Kopřivová in the hospital in Nové Město na Moravě

Eliška Kopřivová

* 1928

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

František Koraba

* 1928

Forced labour during the WW2, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Wedding photo of Hana Korcinová´s mother Brunhilda with her first husband Robert Simon, a Wehrmacht soldier, from March 6, 1943

Hana Korcinová

* 1952

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Wehrmacht soldier, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

MUDr. Jiří Koref: "Twenty-three relatives left in the transport to Terezín"

MUDr. Jiří Koref

* 1932 †︎ 2021

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Israel/Palestine, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt and 5 more anniversaries

Bohuslav Korejs

Bohuslav Korejs

* 1925 †︎ 2023

Legio Angelica (scouts), Boy Scouts, A cultural celebrity

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Božena Koreňová in her youth

Božena Koreňová

* 1931

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Jana Dušková during her studies in Havlíčkův Brod, 1950s

Jana Kořínková

* 1937

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering and 1 more anniversaries

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